The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2C: The Twentieth Century

by Damrosch, David; Manning, Peter; Schotter, Anne; Damrosch, David; Sharpe, William; Sherman, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780321067678
• ISBN10: 0321067673
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Volume 2C (20th Century) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Twentieth Century	1990	(909)
Joseph Conrad	2013	(67)
Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus''	2016	(2)
Heart of Darkness	2018	(62)
from Congo Diary	2072	(2)
Joseph Conrad
from Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce	2074	(5)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Gang of Four: We Live As We Dream, Alone	2079	(1)
Thomas Hardy	2080	(12)
Hap	2081	(1)
Neutral Tones	2082	(1)
Wessex Heights	2082	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	2083	(1)
On the Departure Platform	2084	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	2084	(1)
At Castle Boterel	2085	(1)
Channel Firing	2086	(1)
In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations''	2087	(1)
I Looked Up from My Writing	2087	(1)
``And There Was a Great Calm''	2088	(1)
Logs on the Hearth	2089	(1)
The Photograph	2090	(1)
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House	2090	(1)
Afterwards	2091	(1)
Epitaph	2091	(1)
Bernard Shaw	2092	(99)
Preface to Major Barhara	2095	(24)
Major Barbara	2119	(63)
Address	2178	(4)
Emmeline Pankhurst
Shakes Versus Shav	2182	(4)
Letters
To Francis Collison (20 August 1903)	2186	(1)
To Eleanor Robson (13 April 1905)	2187	(1)
To Louis Calvert (23 July 1905)	2188	(1)
To Louis Calvert (29 November 1905)	2188	(1)
To William Stead (13 December 1905)	2189	(1)
To The Times (31 October 1906)	2189	(2)
Perspectives: The Great War: Confronting The Modern	2191	(1)
Blast	2191	(35)
Vorticist Manifesto	2193	(14)
Rebecca West: Indissoluble Matrimony	2207	(17)
Ezra Pound: The New Cake of Soap	2224	(1)
Ezra Pound: Salutation the Third	2225	(1)
Rupert Brooke	2226	(1)
The Soldier	2226	(1)
T.E. Lawrence	2226	(13)
from The Seven Pillars of Wisdom	2227	(12)
Siegfried Sassoon	2239	(2)
Glory of Women	2240	(1)
Everyone Sang	2240	(1)
Wilfred Owen	2241	(2)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	2241	(1)
Strange Meeting	2242	(1)
Dulce Et Decorum Est	2242	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg	2243	(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches	2244	(1)
David Jones	2244	(21)
from In Parenthesis	2245	(20)
Katherine Mansfield	2265	(14)
The Daughters of the Late Colonel	2266	(13)
Robert Graves	2279	(16)
from Goodbye to All That	2280	(15)
Speeches on Irish Independence	2295	(10)
Charles Stewart Parnell	2296	(3)
At Limerick	2296	(1)
Before the House of Commons	2296	(2)
At Portsmouth, After the Defeat of Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill	2298	(1)
Speech Delivered in Committee Room No. 15	2299	(1)
Proclamation of the Irish Republic	2299	(1)
Padraic Pearse	2300	(1)
Kilmainham Prison	2300	(1)
Michael Collins	2301	(4)
The Substance of Freedom	2301	(4)
William Butler Yeats	2305	(27)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	2308	(1)
Who Goes with Fergus?	2309	(1)
No Second Troy	2309	(1)
The Fascination of What's Difficult	2309	(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole	2310	(1)
Easter 1916	2310	(2)
The Second Coming	2312	(1)
A Prayer for My Daughter	2313	(2)
Sailing to Byzantium	2315	(1)
Meditations in Time of Civil War	2315	(5)
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	2320	(3)
Leda and the Swan	2323	(1)
Among School Children	2324	(1)
Byzantium	2325	(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	2326	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	2327	(1)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	2328	(1)
Under Ben Bulben	2329	(3)
James Joyce	2332	(85)
Dubliners	2335	(1)
Eveline	2335	(3)
Clay	2338	(4)
Ivy Day in the Committee Room	2342	(10)
The Dead	2352	(27)
Ulysses	2379	(26)
[Chapter 7. Aeolus]	2380	(25)
Finnegans Wake and a First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake	2405	(12)
[The Fall]	2406	(3)
[Shem the Penman]	2409	(5)
[Anna Livia Plurabelle]	2414	(3)
T. S. Eliot	2417	(36)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	2420	(7)
[Cleverness and the New Poetry]	2423	(2)
Arthur Waugh
Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot	2425	(2)
Ezra Pound
Gerontion	2427	(2)
The Waste Land	2429	(13)
Journey of the Magi	2442	(1)
Four Quartets	2443	(4)
Burnt Norton	2443	(4)
Tradition and the Individual Talent	2447	(6)
Virginia Woolf	2453	(74)
Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street	2455	(6)
The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection	2461	(3)
from A Room of One's Own	2464	(35)
from Three Guineas	2499	(15)
from The Diaries	2514	(13)
Perspectives: Bloomsbury and Modernism	2527	(1)
Lytton Strachey	2528	(15)
from Eminent Victorians	2529	(14)
E.M. Forster	2543	(9)
Andrift in India
The Nine Gems of Ujjain	2544	(2)
Advance, India!	2546	(2)
Jodhpur	2548	(2)
The Suppliant	2550	(2)
Roger Fry	2552	(7)
Culture and Snobbism	2552	(7)
Virginia Woolf	2559	(4)
Letter to Vanessa Bell	2559	(1)
Letter to Gerald Brenan	2560	(2)
Letter to Vita Sackville-West	2562	(1)
D.H. Lawrence	2563	(63)
Piano	2565	(1)
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through	2565	(1)
Tortoise Shout	2566	(2)
Snake	2568	(2)
Bavarian Gentians	2570	(1)
The Fox	2571	(43)
Surgery for the Novel---or a Bomb	2614	(3)
from Etruscan Places	2617	(9)
Evelyn Waugh	2626	(7)
Cruise	2626	(7)
Travel Agent	2630	(3)
Monty Python
Graham Greene	2633	(10)
A Chance for Mr Lever	2633	(10)
P.G. Wodehouse	2643	(13)
Strychnine in the Soup	2644	(12)
W.H. Auden	2656	(22)
Musee des Beaux Arts	2658	(1)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats	2658	(2)
Spain 1937	2660	(2)
Lullaby	2662	(1)
September 1, 1939	2663	(3)
In Praise of Limestone	2666	(2)
Writing	2668	(10)
Perspectives: World War II and the end of Empire	2678	(1)
Sir Winston Churchill	2679	(8)
Two Speeches Before the House of Commons	2680	(7)
Stephen Spender	2687	(3)
Icarus	2688	(1)
What I Expected	2688	(1)
The Express	2689	(1)
The Pylons	2689	(1)
Elizabeth Bowen	2690	(10)
Mysterious Kor	2690	(10)
George Orwell	2700	(17)
from Inside the Whale	2701	(7)
Politics and the English Language	2708	(9)
Salman Rushdie	2717	(19)
Outside the Whale	2717	(9)
Chekov and Zulu	2726	(10)
Dylan Thomas	2736	(9)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	2737	(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	2738	(1)
Return Journey	2738	(7)
Samuel Beckett	2745	(18)
Krapp's Last Tape	2747	(5)
Texts for Nothing	2752	(4)
4(``Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be'')	2752	(2)
8(``Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased'')	2754	(2)
The Expelled	2756	(7)
V.S. Naipaul	2763	(14)
In a Free State	2764	(13)
Prologue, from a Journal: The Tramp at Piraeus	2764	(8)
Epilogue, from a Journal: The Circus at Luxor	2772	(5)
Hanif Kureishi	2777	(46)
My Beautiful Laundrette	2778	(45)
Margaret Drabble	2823	(8)
The Gifts of War	2823	(8)
Philip Larkin	2831	(11)
Church Going	2832	(2)
High Windows	2834	(1)
Talking in Bed	2834	(1)
MCMXIV	2835	(1)
from Preface to All What Jazz	2835	(7)
Perspectives: Whose Language?	2842	(1)
Seamus Heaney	2843	(14)
Feeling into Words	2844	(13)
Medbh McGuckian	2857	(2)
Mr. McGregor's Garden	2857	(1)
The Dream-Language of Fergus	2858	(1)
Coleridge	2859	(1)
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill	2859	(13)
Feeding a Child	2860	(1)
Parthenogenesis	2861	(1)
Labasheedy (The Silken Bed)	2862	(1)
As for the Quince	2863	(1)
Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back	2864	(8)
Nadine Gordimer	2872	(7)
What Were You Dreaming?	2873	(6)
James Kelman	2879	(9)
Home for a Couple of Days	2880	(8)
Derek Walcott	2888	(11)
A Far Cry from Africa	2889	(1)
Wales	2890	(1)
The Fortunate Traveller	2890	(5)
Midsummer	2895	(4)
50 (``I once gave my daughters, separately, two conch shells'')	2895	(1)
52 (``I heard them marching the leaf-wet roads of my head'')	2896	(1)
54 (``The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks that made me'')	2896	(3)
Political and Religious Orders	2899	(6)
Money, Weights, and Measures	2905	(2)
Literary and Cultural Terms	2907	(24)
Bibliography	2931	(10)
Acknowledgments	2941	(4)
Credits	2945	(3)
Index	2948